Chapter 9 Our Spiritual Weapons of Warfare
Excerpted from Women, Get in the Army of God by Dawn Wilson. Copyright ©
2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
" What weapons of our warfare have been given to us by God? We will first
look at the spiritual weapons that have been given for our use. These spiritual
weapons have been given to us through the Holy Spirit. The spiritual weapons
we have been given through the Holy Spirit are: baptism of the Holy Spirit,
spiritual gifts, ministry gifts, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1: 8 but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
Why is the baptism of the Holy Spirit important to you as a weapon of
warfare? It is vitally important because it is the power of God that you receive
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you! Romans 8: 11 says, …if the Spirit of
Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,… In the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, we have dwelling in us the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the
dead. We have this power dwelling in us when we are baptized in the Holy
Spirit.
This baptism of the Holy Spirit is for all who believe."
and
"The power to be His witnesses is from the Holy Spirit. When we receive the
baptism of the Holy Spirit, rivers of living water flow from our innermost beings.
What are those rivers of living water for? They are for us to be His witnesses.
The living water pours forth from us in words and deeds and gives witness of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is a weapon against the enemy as we win souls
to the kingdom of God. It is a weapon of warfare as we are witnesses of the
gospel and souls are saved from the eternal damnation of hell."